Using Paper Making and Fabric to Teach Across Scales: From Microscopic Cells to Fabric and Paper

 

Megan Pease & Lisa Strong

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2018, Volume 39

Abstract

Helping students understand the connection between microscopic observations and the macroscopic tangible world is challenging. We use a revised the “Fabric of Our Lives” lab from Estelle Levetin, Karen McMahon and Robert Reinsvold’s “Laboratory Manual for Applied Botany” (2002) in order to teach students how to make connections between the microscope, cellular level and the macroscopic level of fabrics and papers. We also incorporate the historical importance of fabrics and paper. The goal of this mini-workshop was a presentation of an ordered method for teaching across scales using plant cells, tissues, fabric and paper

Keywords:  teaching across scales

University of Wisconsin, Madison (2017)